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Archives for March 2016

Dry with a high in the North, front moves to South Island

Saturday will be a mostly dry day across New Zealand with high pressure dominating the North Island and north of…

Dry continues – Your Weekend Weather Video

high pressure through central and northern New Zealand means the increasing “big dry” continues over the lower North Island and…

Saturday’s national forecast

Our high pressure sandwich remains – with high pressure across the North Island and the upper South Island.  It means…

February ‘second hottest month ever’ in NZ

Weather highlights: • Hottest temp: 35.5C in Clyde on Feb 3.• Coldest temp: 1.9C in Manapouri on Feb 10.• Highest…

Friday’s national forecast

High pressure dominates the North Island and top half of the South Island, while a front tries to push into…

Aviation: Mystery Chinese plane lands in Napier

Mystery surrounds the Chinese airbus which arrived at Hawke’s Bay Airport on Tuesday. Airport Company chief executive Nick Story said…

Astronomy: What did NASA astronaut Scott Kelly learn about our climate from a year in space? (+PHOTOS; VIDEO)

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is back on Earth. Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov landed late Tuesday…

Meet the farmer that outsmarted the forecasters, thanks to a cabbage tree

Across 2015 (and the year before) there was great talk about the ‘severe’ El Nino coming in this past summer….

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Stuck under the high – Thursday’s Weather Video

We continue to live in something of a weather bubble – with almost the whole country sitting under a large…

Thursday’s Weather Video: Dry for the North Island, hot with some rain in the South

The weather across the country is varied at the moment, with high pressure mostly centred over the North Island and…